Hiscilla

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Hiscilla
Princess of Phthia
Member of the Phthian Royal Family
AbodePhthia, Thessaly
Genealogy
Parents Myrmidon and ?Pisidice
Siblings Antiphus, Actor, Dioplethes, Eupolemeia and ?Erysichthon
Consort Triopas
Children Phorbas, Iphimedeia and
?Erysichthon

In Greek mythology, Hiscilla (Ἴσχυλλα, Ischylla) was a Phthian princess as daughter of King Myrmidon and possibly Peisidice (daughter of Aeolus), thus sister of Antiphus, Actor, [1] Dioplethes, [2] Eupolemeia [3] and probably Erysichthon [4] who was otherwise known as her son by Triopas. [5] By the latter, she also became the mother of Phorbas [6] and Iphimedeia. [7]

Notes

  1. Apollodorus, 1.7.3
  2. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.177
  3. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.54; Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  4. Aelian, Varia Historia 1.27; Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.9b
  5. Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 6.31–32 & 96-100
  6. Homeric Hymns to Apollo 211; Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.14.5
  7. Apollodorus, 1.7.4

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